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Cigaro
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PostPosted: 15:14 - 10 Oct 2008    Post subject: Tom Lehrer Reply with quote
Just rediscovered him. My parents used to listen to him when I was very young but it's only now that I've realised how good he is.

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I wanna go back to Dixie,
Take me back to dear ol' Dixie,
That's the only li'l ol' place for li'l ol' me.
Ol' times there are not forgotten,
Whuppin' slaves and pickin' cotton,
And waitin' for the Robert E. Lee.
(It was never there on time.)
I'll go back to the Swanee,
Where pellagra makes you scrawny,
And the jasmine and the tear gas smell just fine
I really am a-fixin'
To go home and start a-mixin'
Down below that Mason-Dixon line.

Oh, poll tax, how I love ya, how I love ya,
My dear old poll tax.

Won'tcha come with me to Alabammy,
Back to the arms of my dear ol' Mammy,
Her cookin's lousy and her hands are clammy,
But what the hell, it's home.
Yes, for paradise the Southland is my nominee.
Jes' give me a ham hock and a grit of hominy.

I wanna go back to Dixie
I wanna be a dixie pixie
And eat cornpone 'til it's comin' outta my ears
I wanna talk with Southern gentlemen
And put my white sheet on again,
I ain't seen one good lynchin' in years.
The land of the boll weevil,
Where the laws are medieval,
Is callin' me to come and nevermore roam.
I wanna go back to the Southland,
That "y'all" and "shet-ma-mouth" land,
Be it ever so decadent,
There's no place like home.
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PostPosted: 01:45 - 11 Oct 2008    Post subject: Reply with quote
I've not heard of him before, but I think youtube might help to get the flavour more than just dry text

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HAwhC_btAUU

i quite liked this one

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HHhZF66C1Dc&feature=related

a nice comment on american foreign policy, and shows it hasnt changed that much over the decades
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PostPosted: 21:20 - 11 Oct 2008    Post subject: Reply with quote
I've just started to get into Seasick Steve. Saw him on a late night music program a few months ago then saw his album in the shop and got it. Brilliant stuff.
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PostPosted: 08:58 - 12 Oct 2008    Post subject: Reply with quote
Wierdly, i was singning that particular one to myself on the way home from work on Friday. (Though I only got as far as 'Pallegra makes you scrawny' before I ran out of lyrics). My dad's still got some of his stuff on Reel-to-Reel tape (and even managed to pick up a player at a car boot a few years back).

I also liked his comments about political satire being obsolete after Henry Kissinger won the Nobel Peace Prize.
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PostPosted: 20:30 - 12 Oct 2008    Post subject: Reply with quote
My great-uncle got me into Tom Lehrer (The Remains of Tom Lehrer is a good album), and I saw Seasick Steve on the BBC's coverage of Reading & Leeds Festivals (I think he was in Leeds) in August. Both very good. Thumbs Up
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PostPosted: 21:53 - 12 Oct 2008    Post subject: Reply with quote
This is the best Tom Lehrer song ever.

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PostPosted: 08:38 - 13 Oct 2008    Post subject: Reply with quote
Skudd wrote:
I've just started to get into Seasick Steve. Saw him on a late night music program a few months ago then saw his album in the shop and got it. Brilliant stuff.


yeah seasick steve is great

quite a bit of him on youtube, so i recommend anyone who hasnt heard of him takes a look

really good blues guy.

even if you dont think you like old style blues, you will probably like it
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PostPosted: 08:45 - 13 Oct 2008    Post subject: Reply with quote
ive just discovered blues.....



and err ....i wouldnt neccesserily call sea sick steve blues.....



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PostPosted: 08:48 - 13 Oct 2008    Post subject: Reply with quote
ok whatever he is, he's good and quite accessible enjoyable for anyone who wouldnt normally go for that sort of thing

particularly with his little stories that add to the character of it all
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PostPosted: 21:18 - 15 Oct 2008    Post subject: Reply with quote
Thanks for reminding me about him!

Heard a song by him on the radio ages ago ('New Math') and thought it was pretty god - but totally forgot who it was by. I listened to the first song in the post and it instantly came back to me!

Oh and also, I don't know about anyone else, but we used to have this video we got played in Science at school (prob saw it about 4 times cause there really wasn't much better to do in 1st yr science!) that i though might just be him aswell - turns out it was.

Did anyone else get the video with THIS in it? It also had 'Come Together' by the Bealtles too. Good video now I think about it!

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